Underserved communities
Improvised source of water coolant for ultrasonic scaler: an appropriate technology in underserved communities
... Traditionally dental plaque, calculus and stains have been removed by scaling and polishing manually with hand instruments such as curettes, chisels, hoes and scalers. However, ultrasonic scaling is becoming the ...
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Providing the Primary Care Health Workforce for Georgia s Rural and Medically Underserved Communities
... medically underserved populations remain underserved by primary care physicians, despite various efforts by medical schools and other institutions/organizations to correct this ...and underserved ...
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What Will Open the Doors for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs From Traditionally Underserved Communities?
... Repeatedly in the supplement the au- thors point to the enormous power that is present in communities and to the value of seeking and acting on the suggestions of parents and communi- ties. In past years, the HSC ...
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Lay health educator role in improving cancer screening rates in underserved communities
... As the SSL program progressed, it was important to evaluate the achievement of SSL objectives and targets and set new targets; this may need to be done every two to three years depending on the size of the target com- ...
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<p>Delivering mobile eye care to underserved communities while providing training in ophthalmology to medical students: experience of the Guerrilla Eye Service</p>
... the underserved community and involving medi- cal students with educational opportunities in ...the underserved, thereby evaluating patients in settings where they are usu- ally seen for primary ...
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Application of machine learning models in predicting length of stay among healthcare workers in underserved communities in South Africa
... Longitudinal individual health worker records are main- tained at AHP. These health workers included profes- sionals from South Africa and the rest of the world seeking employment in underserved facilities in ...
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Mobile Technology for Empowering Health Workers in Underserved Communities: New Approaches to Facilitate the Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases.
... and underserved people in developing countries is to actively involve the local community in the management, distribution, and advocacy of much-needed health practices ...affected communities and those ...
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Achieving universal health coverage : implementation of a polio eradication intervention to deliver integrated primary health services to hard-to-reach and underserved communities in Nigeria Research
... were communities that had geographically difficult terrain with any local or state border, scattered households, nomadic populations, waterlogged or riverine areas, or where it was difficult to access the ...
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Implementing academic detailing for breast cancer screening in underserved communities
... With targeted investments to improve access, breast can- cer screening has reached near-parity between African Americans and whites; Hispanics still lag behind [1-3]. Breast cancer screening is not yet population-wide, ...
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Healthcare support for underserved communities using a mobile social media platform
... The paper described a solution artifact to support the general practice needs of underserved citizens in Bangladesh. The design uses mobile phone access to general practice cloud services forming a social media ...
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Spreading Justice to Rural Montana: Expanding Local Legal Services in Underserved Rural Communities
... in underserved communities, but also about helping CUNY graduates become more mar- ketable lawyers”); I NCUBATOR G UIDE , supra note 11, at 2 (“Law practice incubators have emerged in recent years in ...
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Inclusion of diverse populations in genomic research and health services: Genomix workshop report
... serving underserved populations will need ongoing education on advances in genomic medicine and management approaches based on genetically determined variants (Feero and Green, 2011; Radice et ...minority ...
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<p>Antibiotic Therapy for Children with Diarrhea in a Low-Resource Setting: A Syndromic Approach</p>
... The present study suggests that antibiotics may be indicated in subjects with diarrhea in the presence of a combination of predispositions (such as infancy and malnutrition) and SIRS indicators (such as fever and ALC) ...
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Telehealth and the re design of emergency medical services
... in underserved communities: Initial telemedicine-based applications relating to emergency medicine were motivated by the need to provide more timely diagnosis and care to patients in underserved ...
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Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: a systematic review
... in underserved communities because the former will compete with the latter for patients and practice ...into underserved communities attracts non-partici- pating health workers to the same ...
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Community Education of Personalized Breast Cancer Therapy Utilizing Students of HealthCare Professions
... medically underserved members of local communities, we could improve patients’ basic knowledge of breast cancer and explain specific treatment options that are ...local underserved communities ...
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Voluntary work of pharmacy students in two regions of South Korea without the separation of the dispensary from medical practice
... medically underserved areas of ...medically underserved areas of Korea that do not have separate prescribing and dispensing, the pharmacy students dispensed and compounded medications under the supervision ...
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A 5A's communication intervention to promote physical activity in underserved populations
... The second component in the conceptual framework is patient-centered communication (PCC) [36,37]. Patient-centered communication directly addresses bar- riers in counseling for underserved populations that may not ...
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Adult immunization improvement in an underserved family medicine practice
... most underserved members within these communities, predominantly uninsured, underinsured, or publicly insured, and primarily members of minority communi- ...
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Using Telemedicine to Provide Pediatric Subspecialty Care to Children With Special Health Care Needs in an Underserved Rural Community
... The telemedicine clinic for CSHCN was established in Oroville, CA, a community located 90 miles north of the UCDCH in Sacra- mento. The city of Oroville and surrounding communities are designated health ...
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